For the last few months I've been taking Improv comedy classes which is fun and flexes my creative muscles in a completely different way than zines do. Italso is giving me something to write about in the next issue of my zine and I'd be lying if I said that wasn't a small part of the appeal.

I write a lot. Some of that writing goes into zines. Some of it has been for philosophy or science classes. Some is fiction or poems or short stories that I'm not sure what to do with yet. I'm working on a novel with a transgender protangonist who lives in an alternate world with a variety of ecological constraints that are different from our own. I actually don't work on it very often, though :/

I try to read some too; working my way through S&F Barnard magazine (their new queer agenda issue) and an old philosophy textbook (which is a great starting place for learning about philosophy on the cheap, but uses male pronouns exclusively...... meh).

I also garden, learn about preserving food and whole local foods and stuff like that, and keep fish, and make paintings. Zines are becoming a bigger part of my life since the semester ended and I have time and energy to focus on them, and the rest of what goes into running a distro. <3

In my free time I like to draw, paint, and do other crafts, collect house plants for my windowsill, do the laundry, read, watch tv/movies, waste time with good friends, write bad poetry, and make tasty food. This summer I'll probably be more active, biking/skating/hiking/swimming, hopefully visiting some museums and stuff.

I go through a lot of phases though, where I'm super focused on just a couple of things and not much else, or where I just don't have the energy/inspiration to do much of anything. So I'm sometimes at a loss to describe my hobbies.

I clean the house, go to work and play with my daughter lol. But I love running and exercising. Every morning I run for 30mins depending on the weather. When work doens't get in the way, my family and I like to go out and play or go to museums to show the little one some art or science.